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Winning the Kentucky Derby with Strike The Gold didn’t mean instant fame for trainer Nick Zito.
May 16, 1991
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Trainer might start as many as five horses in the Kentucky Derby, as he tries for his third victory, but his first since Go For Gin in 1994.
April 14, 2005
Horse racing: Zito, with two Kentucky Derby victories, is excited to have a shot at a third with two horses Saturday.
April 27, 1999
Florida Derby winner High Fly or Tampa Bay Derby winner Sun King could give Zito his third Derby victory and first since Go for Gin in 1994.
April 10, 2005
How fitting that Tabasco Cat, trained by Wayne Lukas, and Go For Gin, trained by Nick Zito, finished 1-2 in the Preakness.
June 2, 1994
Trainer Nick Zito announced that Angel Cordero Jr. will replace Chris Antley aboard Strike The Gold in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 17.
July 30, 1991
In the tunnel that leads from the track to the paddock at Churchill Downs, trainer Nick Zito stood crestfallen.
May 8, 2005
Rest of the field is weak, so the Belmont Stakes should come down to the winners of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
June 9, 2005
Five contending horses, five owners, one set of weathered hands.
May 4, 2005
On Thursday night, trainer Nick Zito got a phone call from his mother in New York.
May 5, 1990